Now, to be fair, that may have been more of an issue for her where she lives, and where she grew up. St Louis did at one time have some pretty heavy racist background to it, and if you're of a younger generation than we are, you may not have seen nearly as much of that kind of crap.

I've actually faced some prejudice from time to time just being part ITALIAN, but I do wholly agree. She does not develop her characters well, and tends to dwell on negative events entirely too often, so that they would appear to be the norm.

Of course, let us also face facts, she's dealing with an alternate world, where things might just be a little different in those respects, too...but I don't know why the differences would go that way, when, rather than having racial hatreds, a world like that might be far more likely to focus on the more obvious differences of human or not.

-Dira-